We hope you can join us on Saturday, November 10 at 7:30 p.m. at Washington Printmakers Gallery (1732 Connecticut Ave. NW, second floor, several blocks north of the Dupont Circle Q Street Metro exit) for the next poetry reading in the Ruthless Grip PoetrySeries. The readers will be ROD SMITH and JUDITH GOLDMAN.

ROD SMITH is the author of In Memory of My Theories (O Books), Protective Immediacy (Roof), &, with Lisa Jarnot and Bill Luoma, New Mannerist Tricycle (Beautiful Swimmer). The Good House, a long poem, has just been published by Spectacular Books. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologiesincluding Anthology of New American Poets, The Baffler, The Gertrude Stein Awards, New American Writing, Open City, Shenandoah, and The Washington Review. He edits Aerial magazine, publishes Edge Books, & manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC.

JUDITH GOLDMAN is the author of the highly regarded recent book of poems, VOCODER, as well as the chapbook ADVERSITIES OF OUTERLIFE. Her poems have appeared inmagazines such as Shiny, Aerial, Arras, Onedit, $lavery, Object, and Big Allis. At Columbia University in New York City, where she lives, she's currently hard at work on her dissertation, Political Economies of Gender: Representation and Excess in Literature byBritish Women, 1789-1831.